THOMAS W. VEAZEY, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1835.

the construction of said company's canal with due

CHAP. §95.

supply of water, be practicable, from the Chesapeake

Route

and Ohio canal to the city of Baltimore, by the vallies

of the Monocacy and Patapsco, or by a route diverg-

ing from the said Chesapeake and Ohio canal at the

mouth of the Seneca River, exclusively within the lim-

its of this State, and that if the construction of such

canal he decided by the Governor and Council to be

practicable by either of said routes, and if in that case

the said company by certificate to the Governor and

Council, under its corporate seal, and signed by its

president, shall after such decision testify its agree-

dent to locate and construct its canal upon the most

Most northern prac«

northern practicable route of these routes, said sub-

ticable route

scription shall be and is hereby authorised to be made,

and in order to said decision the Governor and Coun-

cil may act upon any report and estimates of any en-

gineer or engineers of said company, and of the Mayor

and city Council of Baltimore, and upon those of any

that by the Governor and Council, may for the pur-

pose, at the expense of the said company, be appoint-

ed, who are hereby authorised and directed to appoint

an engineer for that purpose, and it is hereby further

Governor & Coun-

declared that it shall be the duty of the Governor and

cil within sixty day shall deter-

Council within sixty days after a report and estimate

mine

or reports and estimates, by an engineer or engineers

as aforesaid, shall have been submitted by them to the

Governor and Council, or filed with the clerk of the

council, to decide upon the practicability of said route,

and in case the said Governor and Council shall not

Case of their omit-

decide upon the practicability of said route, within six

ing Md canal company may de-

ty days after a report and estimates shall have been

cide

submitted to them, as aforesaid, then the president and

directors of said Maryland canal company, shall have

power to make the said decision, and their decision

shall have the same effect as if such decision had been

made by the Governor and Council as aforesaid; And

Subscription to the

be it further enacted, That the subscription hereby

Ch. & O. O. C.

and Bait. and O.

authorised to the Chesapeake and Ohio canal company

R. R. Co. depen-dent upon a suf-

and to the Baltimore and Ohio rail road company

ficitnt subscription to the Maryland

shall not be made until the Maryland canal company,

canal company

shall by their president and directors, have certified